HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1986-10-29, Page 2PagePv---Lueknow Sentinel, Wednesday, October 29, 1936
Wise prepared to he p farmers..
Federal Agriculture Minister John Wise
toured rain soaked fields in Huron County
last Friday, October 17 and gave broad
suggestions that he would be prepared to
join his provincial c unterpart in pro-
viding assistance to farmers to help them
stay in business in the face of mounting
crop losses.
Wise flew into the area for a brief tour at
the request of an ad hoc committee
established by the Huron Federation of
Agriculture. The committee had told Mr.
Wise that "the weather conditions this fall
have compounded an already fragile
economic situation which has resulted in a
total financial disaster to some
agricultural sectors."
Following a dinner in Exeter where IVIr.
Wise and the Huron farrners were joined
by four area MPs, the group stopped to ex-
amine a white bean field in Hay Township
before moving on to Soudant Farms where
they met behind closed doors for some
time before emerging to issue statements
to the press.
Mr. Wise, flanked by MPs Murray Car-
diff, Terry Clifford, Sid Fraleigh and
Harry Brightwell, said the weather had
created a serious situation but noted that it
would be premature to put any final
figures on the amount of crop loss.
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He said it would be irresponsible to say
that some fanners were not deserving of
special attention and explained that pro-
ducers in other provinces had been given
financial help in joint federal -provincial
programs.
Mr. Wise said a reasonable approach
would be for the province to give the
federal goverment a detailed estimateiof
the crop losses and a suggestion on how the
two governments could work together to
provide assistance.
It was explained that on every occasion
in the past where that had been done by
provincial governments, they had been
successful in getting federal assistance.
Mr. Wise also said that the situation in On-
tario could even present a larger disaster
than what was now apparent. U so, that
could trigger a federal -provincial *aster
relief program similar to the one under-
taken following the tornado in the Barrie
area, where a $5 million agricultural com-
ponent was established.
However, the federal agricultural
minister indicated it would be up to the
provincial government to decide on the
priority for agriculture and the farmers of
the province.
"We don't. act unilaterally," he explain-
ed, adding that the initiative would have to
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While noting that the alternatives ap-
peared to be for a spot federal-provinical
aid program or using the existing disaster
legislation, Mr. Wise said he felt the
former was "the best route to go". •
Mr. Wise said that under joint aid pro-
grams undertaken in other provinces,
most had been operated on a 50-50 basis
between the federal and provincial
governments.
Before departing, Mr. :Wise said the best
thing that could happen was for the area to
be blessed with four weeks of sunshine or a
good frost. Either would enable farmers to
harvest some of the crops still out in the
field,
Mr. Wise explained that the mood of,
western Canadian farmers over recent
weather conditions had been the same as
that of their Ontario counterparts, but he
said the west had now been blessed with
sunny skies and high temperatures. Grain
farmers working around the clock were
now expected to harvest their largest crop
in history if the weather continues to. co-
operate.
He also indicated he would welcome
changes to tile crop insurance program to
better reflect the needs of farmers. He and
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